Colin Friels sees RED

Colin Frielsbreathes life into tortured artist Mark Rothko in the Tony Award winning production of Red, currently showing at Brisbane's QPAC.

In the 1950s Rothko was commissioned to create a series for Manhattan's upscale Four Seasons restaurant. Using art as a weapon, he vowed to create stomach-turning canvases that would 'ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who eats there'—but, in 1959, he stormily reclaimed the paintings and gave back the money.

This mystery is explored with stunning intensity in Red, along with the relationship between master and protégé, art and commerce, artist and audience.